Menu problem - Post ID 183089

Feb 26th, 2012 at 01:31 PM
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Eric Rohloff
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Eric Rohloff (Rolly) wrote:
Janet, Make your html box 350 wide.:).
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Feb 26th, 2012 at 02:50 PM
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Janet Costidell wrote:
Can I buy the html editor, and do it that way, even though I use VSD?


Of course you can. The HTML Editor has a built-in menu maker which produce html and css files that we can help you edit.

And if you feel more comfortable with VSD for creating the sites, you can tweak your menu in the html Editor before you insert it in VSD.

I know there are quite a number of people who create the design for a site in VSD and then open the files in the Editor to insert images, text etc. That works ok as long as you don't go back to VSD for editing the same site.

Earlier, when I was learning CSS, I often did some design details in VSD to see what kind of code it produced. I learnt a lot from doing that.
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Mar 3rd, 2012 at 12:01 PM
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Janet Costidell
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Hi, I tried making my HTML box 350 wide, but it didn't seem to help, am I putting it in the right place?
Mar 3rd, 2012 at 01:17 PM
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Eric Rohloff
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Looks to be only 188 wide to me.:)
I can't hear what I'm looking at.
It's easy to overlook something you're not looking for.
This is a site I built for my work.(RSD)
http://esmansgreenhouse.com
This is a site I built for use in my job.(HTML Editor)
https://pestlogbook.com
This is my personal site used for testing and as an easy way to share photos.(RLM imported to RSD)
https://ericrohloff.com
Mar 4th, 2012 at 02:49 AM
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Janet Costidell
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So sorry to sound so dense Eric, but I am editing the code in the code box in VSD (have no idea if this is the right way, but seems to be the only way I can actually edit the code!), can you point me in the direction of the line I need to edit?
Mar 4th, 2012 at 05:52 AM
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Inger
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Janet,

Since I don't know the menu maker you are using, I can't advise you how to edit your menu in it, but I've found a workaroud for you, and an error that you have to edit in the menu code:
<ul id="ebul_mb73g0_5" class="ebul_mb73g0" style="width: 350px;">
<li><a href="http://www.nannerch.com/cf.html" title="">Cross&nbsp;Foxes</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.nannerch.com/cp.html" title="">Cherry&nbsp;Pie</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.nannerch.com/oldmill.html" title="">Old&nbsp;Mill&nbsp;Hotel</a></li>
</ul>
<ul id="ebul_mb73g0_8" class="ebul_mb73g0" style="width: 350px;;">
<li><a href="http://www.nannerch.com/brownies.html" title="">Brownies/Rainbows</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.nannerch.com/playgroup.html" title="">Playgroup/Toddlers</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.nannerch.com/sportsclub.html" title="">Sports Club</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.nannerch.com/players.html" title="">Nannerch Players</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.nannerch.com/wi.html" title="">W.I.</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.nannerch.com/golf.html" title="">Golf Society</a></li>
</ul>


Note how I have written the names of these establishments; Cross&nbsp;Foxes etc. Instead of using a normal space, I've used a 'non breaking space'. If you want the submenu to be wider, add more of those &nbsp; before, between or after, just make sure you don't have any normal spaces in between.

The error: Look at this line: <ul id="ebul_mb73g0_8" class="ebul_mb73g0" style="width: 350px;;">
You see it has two semicolons after 350px. Remove one of them.
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Mar 4th, 2012 at 07:41 AM
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Eric Rohloff
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Thanks Inger, I got her menu to display fine as long as I made the HTML box at least 350px wide. I did this with Firebug on her actual page. I also copied her source code into VSD and placed it on a page in my site and it displayed fine as long as the HTML box the code was in was at least 350px wide.
Janet, There's no editing. Try making the HTML box that your code is in 350px wide.:)
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It's easy to overlook something you're not looking for.
This is a site I built for my work.(RSD)
http://esmansgreenhouse.com
This is a site I built for use in my job.(HTML Editor)
https://pestlogbook.com
This is my personal site used for testing and as an easy way to share photos.(RLM imported to RSD)
https://ericrohloff.com
Mar 4th, 2012 at 07:48 AM
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Inger
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As usual, you and a couple of others have better solutions for VSD. ;) I just downloaded the page and opened in the html Editor...

In bee keeping, if you ask 10 beekeepers how they would accomplish something, you get at least 11 different answers. The same goes for computing, web design and markup. There are more than one way of doing things and still achieve the same result ;)
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Mar 4th, 2012 at 07:51 AM
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Eric Rohloff
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That was a good catch in the code:). As usual there's at least 3 people better at coding then me on this forum.:lol:
I can't hear what I'm looking at.
It's easy to overlook something you're not looking for.
This is a site I built for my work.(RSD)
http://esmansgreenhouse.com
This is a site I built for use in my job.(HTML Editor)
https://pestlogbook.com
This is my personal site used for testing and as an easy way to share photos.(RLM imported to RSD)
https://ericrohloff.com
Mar 4th, 2012 at 12:31 PM
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Janet Costidell
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You folks are the best!

No time to do this at the moment, but it's looking very hopeful, thank you so much!

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